The Rainhow fish is from six to t\velve inches long. Its color 

 is a dark green. Its scales are large, and their tinted margins 

 reflect the light in all the colors of the rain-bow — hence its name. 

 Its teeth are like those of the bluefish, with two plates upon each 

 jaw, which protrude from its lips. 



The Parrot fish is most brilliantly colored. It is principally 

 of a bluish green, with purple marks on the back and near the 

 mouth, and yellow and red marks near the tail. The scales are 

 edged with a dark wine color. 



Catesby's description of it is more full; he says the body of the 

 Parrot fish is covered with large green scales; the eye is red and 

 yellow; the upper part of the head brown, the lower part and 

 gills blue, bordered with dusky red; a streak of red extends from 

 the tail to l>ehind the gills, at the upper end of which there is a 

 bright yellow spot. It has five fins; one extends almost the 

 length of the back, and is of a bay or cinnamon color; there are 

 two behind the gills blended with black, green and purplish col- 

 ors, with their edge verged with blue. Under the abdomen is 

 another red fin, verged with ])lue; under the anus extends another 

 long, narrow green fin, with a list of red through the middle of 

 it. At the basis of the tail, on eacli side, is a large yellow spot. 

 The tail is large, forked, and green, with a curved line running 

 througli the middle, parallel to the curve of the tail, and ending 

 in white points. It is more rcmarkal)le for- its beauty than es- 

 teemed for delicacy. 



The /Spanish IIo(j fish is about ten inches in length, and weighs 

 about one pound. The color of its upper portion — being all above 

 a line drawn from tlic extremity of the dorsal fin to the pectoral 

 fin — is a dark purple wine color, with dark brown bands on the 

 edges of the tail; below this lino the color is yellow, deepening 

 in some places into orange. It is beautiful but poisonous. 



The Yellow ^^if/e^^jiVi is unsurpassed for the admiration which 



